The new edition of this industry-defining survey, building on the results of the 2024 edition, is now open! Supply chain, sourcing, retail planning, and PLM professionals can take part anonymously here.
In late 2023 and early 2024, The Interline and Bamboo Rose surveyed the fashion and consumer goods industries to assess the state of sourcing strategies and the maturity of supply chain solutions. In the findings of that survey, professionals across the sourcing and supply chain spectrum revealed their challenges with ongoing disruption, a persistent lack of visibility, increasing ESG / CSR regulations, and a limited roll-out of dedicated solutions.
Twelve months later, we are now revisiting these themes and others to evaluate how much has changed as a result of macro and sector-specific forces, and how the technology landscape for sourcing and supply chain solutions is evolving.
You can provide your perspective for this new benchmark survey, and help shape a new report from The Interline and Bamboo Rose, using the button below, or as an embedded form by scrolling down this page.
This survey is open to brands and retailers around the world, and all responses are anonymous. The survey will take approximately 5-6 minutes to complete, and does not require you to part with any mandatory identifiable details; an optional email address field is provided at the point of submitting your answers, for anyone who would like to be contacted about the findings of this survey.
Surveys will be automatically saved and can be resumed (this requires cookies to be enabled in your browser), so you can complete questions over several sessions.
Complete the embedded survey:
Thank you for taking the time to provide your anonymous perspective. It will help to shape a second objective picture of the realities of supply chain strategies, sourcing practices, sustainability, and an update to a unique benchmark of the technology ecosystem that caters to those challenges.
Specifically, we want to understand how the following key findings from the previous iteration of this survey have evolved:
- Last year, technology adoption was lagging. More than 55% of companies still relied on spreadsheets, emails, and other off-the-shelf tools to manage critical sourcing and supply chain processes.
- A significant 67% of brands and retailers reported having only “fair” or “lacking” visibility into key supply chain metrics. Will the mandate for sustainability have moved the needle?
- An even larger share – 70% – of companies still used manual processes to manage disruption and risk. Have automation and structured resilience since been put in place?
- Brand and retail businesses in the previous survey needed to juggle profitability, supply chain resilience, transparency, and speed to market. Has this mix changed?
For any questions, please contact digital@theinterline.com
